Articles tagged with: lunch

There’s no getting around it — downtown Benton, Ark., has lost the luster it once had. That was the place where we’d go to watch movies, buy shoes and purchase office supplies. We got our Cub Scouts uniforms and Polo shirts at Gingles, picked up new suits at the the Toggery, grabbed the kids’ clothes at Jack and Jill or stop by the post office. A lot of us first saw Star Wars at the Royal theater downtown, checked out books at the Saline County Library and recall when almost all …